1 Chronicles 28:3

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

But God said to me, ‘You shall not build a house for my name, for you are a warrior and have shed blood.’

Cross References

1 Chronicles 22:8

But the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ‘You have shed much blood and have waged great wars; you shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed so much blood in my sight on the earth.

1 Chronicles 17:4

Go and tell my servant David: Thus says the Lord: You shall not build me a house to live in.

1 Kings 5:3

“You know that my father David could not build a house for the name of the Lord his God because of the warfare with which his enemies surrounded him, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.